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Article: Stay on top of your high blood pressure at home: home monitoring allows you to maintain good control of your blood pressure and may help your doctor determine whether you need treatment.
- Article from:
- Men's Health Advisor
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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After you rush to make your doctor's appointment, your physician says you have "white coat hypertension," when stress and anxiety cause your blood pressure to rise.
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Your blood pressure is an ever-changing continuum, and just as you can't grasp an entire movie by one frame of film, so you can't always get the whole picture of your blood pressure from one reading at your doctor's office.
That's why home monitoring is important for patients being treated for high blood pressure (hypertension) and those with borderline hypertension who need further evaluation to determine a course of treatment.
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